See, this is the kind of debate that makes me dispair for the planet and humanity.
I'm neither pro-wind farms nor anti-wind farms. I hear the arguements against them and they seem reasonable and alarming, but then I listen to the Global Warming debate and it seems that action is required immediately, not next week, next month or next year, and certainly not in 10 years time.
Staying with fossil fuel isn't an option we're told, windfarms and barrage's are not environmentally friendly, and few people seem to like Nuclear.
Folks, by the time we've decided what we're going to do, we'll all be dead. If environmentalists and conservationsists can't put forward a united front and agree what action needs to be taken, how can we expect governments and Joe Public?
I don't want to see birds slaughtered by huge blades, I don't want our landscapes spoilt by these monstrosities, but soon we and it will all be gone anyway if we don't do something, or at least that's what we're told.
Let me say again, I'm not pro-windfarms, but come on, everybody who is against them give me a good, sustainable alternative, which won't damage the environment and that we can start implementing NOW. Convince me, get me off the fence and make me start campaigning against windfarms.
I'm sorry to say, the fact that a few birds are killed or that it's spoiling your favourite view will not convince me, because the stakes are so high. So why should I be anti-windfarms?